Novelist Irving Wallace and his son David Wallechinsky* justify this
massive expenditure of paper and ink with forthright immodesty: "Where
the familiar, standard almanacs leave off and stopwell, that's where
The People's Almanac begins." They are incontestably correct. Among the
items not to be found in standard almanacs but present here: summaries
of every game played in the Little League World Series; a biography of
Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck's miserly uncle; pop psychohistories of
selected U.S. Presidents, including Truman ("Harry was a...